Alrighty now:

Instead of worrying about Ebola in the US, let's pay attention where it matters http://t.co/BQb4IVFWB5 via @DoctorYasmin

— Huffington Post Blog (@HuffPostBlog) October 22, 2014

Yes, it matters in Africa. It must be stopped in Africa, hence the reason for travel bans and quarantines, that’s how it was successfully stopped in Nigeria.

But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t worry about it in the United States or that it “doesn’t matter” in the U.S. as the HuffPo tweet would suggest.

Health care workers should be lauded for their efforts to help stop this deadly disease. But they above all people should be conscious of the dangers and not contribute to possible spread by their actions. They above all should respect quarantines and not be traveling, which is supposed to be part of CDC and Doctors Without Borders protocol.

There was a conscious, dare I say coordinated, effort under way last evening in media to attack the NY/NJ quarantine rules as ‘hysteria’. This effort is being pushed by the very people with CDC background, such as the above mentioned Dr. Yasmin, who are supposed to be coordinating the effort to protect us, trying to paint the story of a nurse held in quarantine as ‘not being treated with dignity’. She of course failed to mention her own connection to the CDC as we noted here, until she was called on it.

This isn’t about ‘dignity”, it’s about a potential pandemic, and sorry, getting Ebola isn’t very ‘dignified’ either…